Hays County has been allocated $7.4 million of a $50.97 million disaster recovery grant awarded to the state of Texas from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The grant is aimed at helping the county recover from the Memorial Day weekend and All Saint’s Day floods in 2015.

Members of the Hays County Commissioners Court discussed the grant at a meeting Tuesday.

Projects located in the city of San Marcos would not be eligible to be funded through the grant because the city received a $25.08 million disaster recovery grant from HUD in February.

The General Land Office, a state agency that oversees state land and will oversee the grant administration, determined that 68 percent of funds— about $5.03 million for Hays County—should go to non-housing and infrastructure-related projects, and 32 percent of the county's funds—about $2.37 million—should go to housing projects.

Commissioner Will Conley, who represents a portion of western Hays County that includes Wimberley, said the county may have a hard time finding housing projects to spend the money on because projects cannot be located in San Marcos.

“If we cannot find good, quality housing projects and needs then I think, stating the obvious, we’d like that to be able to go toward more of the infrastructure needs and demands in the county that our staffs and public and ourselves have identified and our other local municipalities have identified as important in their communities and different geographic areas of the county,” Conley said.

Commissioner Debbie Ingalsbe, who represents a portion of the county including San Marcos, echoed Conley’s sentiment, saying that although many homes in the county were affected by the flooding, they may not qualify for the county’s disaster recovery grant.

“I guess we’ll wait and see how that progresses,” Ingalsbe said.

The county will host a public hearing to discuss allocations of the grant money Dec. 6 at 10 a.m. during commissioners' regular meeting.

An initial draft of the allocation, which is subject to change, was included in a presentation given to commissioners at the meeting Tuesday:

Hays County

Non-housing-$2,912,334
Housing-$1,503,514

Buda

Non-housing-$275,382
Housing- $0

Dripping Springs

Non-housing-$288,898
Housing- $0

Kyle

Non-housing-$1,182,376
Housing- $0

Uhland

Non-housing-$177,490
Housing- $0

Wimberley

Non-housing-$199,136
Housing- $866,188